Xerox Expands Toner Production In Western N.Y. Manufacturing Plant - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Xerox (XRX) said it will increase its emulsion aggregation (EA) toner capacity by 40 percent with the completion today of a nearly $35 million expansion project to help Xerox keep pace with growing EA toner product demand.

The expansion has increased the plant size from 100,000 square-feet to 155,000 square-feet, and added about $26 million in EA toner manufacturing equipment. Xerox and local officials participated in the official opening today.

Developed by Xerox and protected by more than 300 patents, EA toner produces sharper images using less toner per page. Unlike traditional toner, which is created by physically grinding composite polymeric materials to micron-sized particles, EA toner is chemically grown enabling the size, shape and structure of the particles to be precisely controlled. This leads to improved print quality, less toner usage, less toner waste and less energy required for manufacturing and for printing. Xerox and Fuji Xerox have designed around 50 office and production printing products that use EA toner.

According to InfoTrends, between 2013 and 2018 production digital color toner-based pages will grow at a 6.2% compound annual growth rate, amounting to 295 billion pages globally by 2018, which presents a sizeable opportunity for the chemically grown toners used in Xerox production devices.

Construction on the plant addition began in 2013, and the new manufacturing line and new toner filling line is expected to create about 54 new jobs, consisting of process operators, quality control, lab personnel and additional maintenance staff. The project also generated about 70 full-time construction jobs over the past 15 months.